Middlesex County

EAST BRUNSWICK—The New Jersey Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission will present a lecture by William Gillette, Ph.D., a professor of history at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, on Monday, March 22.

EAST BRUNSWICK—Jewish Family and Vocational Service of Middlesex County announced a new bereavement support group that will be held at East Brunswick Jewish Center on Ryder’s Lane in East Brunswick, every Wednesday beginning March 24 from 6:30 – 8 p.m. (except for March 31).

EDISON—Museo de pyramides, a special museum filled with specially-crafted Egyptian pyramids, was open for viewing at The Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison in the classroom of Aurea Hernandez-Webster, Lower School Spanish teacher, earlier this month.

EDISON—Clairie Vassiliadis, assistant professor of mathematics at Middlesex County College, was named Woman of the Year by the Pancyprian Association, a group that promotes Greek Cypriot language and culture.

PERTH AMBOY — Mayor Wilda Diaz hopes to extend her term of office by six months with an ordinance moving the city’s non-partisan municipal elections to the same date as the November general election but Miguel Morales is spearheading a recall effort that would cut her reign short.

HIGHLAND PARK—Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce J. Kaplan and Highland Park Police Chief Stephen J. Rizco announced that a borough woman died this morning, apparently after being stabbed in her apartment.